Arbeitspapier

Offshoring and Firm Overlap

We set up a model of offshoring with heterogeneous producers that captures two empirical regularities of German offshoring firms. There is selection of larger, more productive firms into offshoring. However, the selection is not sharp, and offshoring and non-offshoring firms coexist over a wide range of the revenue distribution. An overlap of offshoring and non-offshoring firms emerges in our model because, in contrast to textbook models of trade with heterogeneous producers, we allow firms to differ in two technology parameters thereby decoupling the offshoring status of a firm from its revenues. In an empirical analysis, we employ firm-level data from Germany to estimate key parameters of the model and show that ignoring the overlap lowers the estimated gains from offshoring by more than 50 percent and, at the same time, exaggerates substantially the importance of the extensive margin for explaining the evolution of German offshoring over the last 25 years.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6361

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
Empirical Studies of Trade
Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
Thema
offshoring
heterogeneous firms
firm overlap
quantitative trade model
extensive and intensive margins of offshoring

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Capuano, Stella
Egger, Hartmut
Koch, Michael
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Capuano, Stella
  • Egger, Hartmut
  • Koch, Michael
  • Schmerer, Hans-Jörg
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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